2 Ch. 4: Fashioned by Hand

2 Chronicles 4:5 "It was a handbreadth in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held three thousand baths."

So by now you're probably wondering what exactly was a part of this temple? What went in it? That is, if you missed 1 Kings 7 (entry). But what caught my awe most of all was this "sea." Basically a large basin for washing. It was a fair-sized pool made out of bronze. 15 feet across, 7.5 feet deep. And it was a handbreadth in thickness. That's a lot of bronze. It also sat on 12 bulls...presumably representing the tribes? I don't know.

But what was the point of this basin? To wash off the blood? To make things clean? It was a huge tub of water that made stuff clean. It had to be big, think of the business it got with the sacrifices. I wonder how often they had to change the water. And how they got the water to it. And how did they empty it? What a process, can you imagine having to go through all that?

Awesome.